Maternal Fetal Medicine Referrals
Refer to a CHOC Pediatric Maternal Fetal Medicine Specialist
Referrals can be placed online through the eCeptionist Referral Portal.
If needed, you can fax your referral to CHOC Maternal Fetal Medicine.
About Our Division
Learn more about CHOC's Maternal Fetal Medicine Division.
To refer to the Fetal Care Center of Southern California, please call:
833-623-3825
As a partnership between UCI Health and CHOC, The Fetal Care Center of Southern California brings together experts in maternal-fetal medicine and pediatrics, so both mom and baby are cared for—no matter the diagnosis. We partner with a patient’s obstetrician (OB), perinatologist and delivery hospital for continuity of care.
We commonly treat:
- Agenesis of the corpus callosum
- Amniotic band syndrome
- Anorectal malformations, including imperforate anus
- Aortic stenosis and pulmonary valve stenosis
- Arachnoid cysts and brain cysts
- Atrioventricular canal defects
- Bladder exstrophy
- Brain and spinal vascular malformations
- Brain tumors
- Bronchial atresia, bronchopulmonary sequestration and congenital lobar emphysema
- Bronchogenic cyst
- Cardiac masses and tumors
- Cardiomyopathy (enlarged or thickened heart)
- Cervical teratoma
- Choledochal cyst
- Chromosome anomalies including Trisomy 13, Trisomy 18 and Trisomy 21 (Down syndrome)
- Cleft lip and palate
- Cloacal exstrophy
- Cloacal malformation
- Clubfoot
- Coarctation of the aorta
- Colonic atresia
- Congenital cytomegalovirus infection
- Congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH)
- Congenital goiter
- Congenital hemangioma with airway compromise
- Congenital high airway obstruction syndrome (CHAOS)
- Congenital pulmonary airway malformation (CPAM)
- Conjoined twins
- Cortical dysplasia
- Craniosynostosis
- Dandy-Walker malformation
- Double outlet right ventricle
- Ebstein’s anomaly
- Echogenic bowel
- Encephalocele
- Esophageal atresia with or without tracheoesophageal fistula
- Fetal arrhythmias
- Gastroschisis
- Genetic syndromes including Beckwith-Wiedemann and Noonan’s syndrome
- Head and neck vascular malformations
- Hirschsprung’s disease
- Hydrocephalus
- Hydronephrosis/hydroureter
- Hydrops fetalis
- Hypoplastic left heart syndrome
- Isoimmunization and other hematologic disease
- Large chorangioma
- Laryngeal atresia
- Limb-length discrepancies
- Lissencephaly
- Lower urinary tract obstruction
- Lymphatic malformations
- Malrotation and volvulus
- Megacystis and megacystis microcolon intestinal hypoperistalsis syndrome
- Megalourethra
- Micrognathia
- Multicystic dysplastic kidney/polycystic kidneys
- Meningomyelocele/myelomeningocele (spina bifida)
- Neural tube defects
- Obstructive epulis
- Omphalocele, including OEIS
- Pachygyria
- Polydactyly of the hand
- Posterior urethral valves
- Proximal focal femoral deficiency
- Prune belly syndrome
- Pulmonary atresia
- Renal duplication anomalies
- Renal dysplasia or agenesis
- Sacrococcygeal teratoma
- Schizencephaly
- Selective fetal growth restriction
- Single ventricle type complex congenital heart disease
- Skeletal dysplasia
- Small bowel atresia (duodenal, jejunal and ileal)
- Solitary kidney
- Spinal deformities
- Tethered spinal cord
- Tetralogy of Fallot
- TRAP sequence
- Twin-twin transfusion syndrome
- Ureterocele
- Ureteropelvic junction obstruction
- Vein of Galen malformation
- Ventricular septal defects
- Ventriculomegaly
Diagnostics and Interventions
- Ultrafast fetal MRI
- Fetal ultrasound
- Fetal echocardiogram
- Genetic testing
- Amniocentesis
- Shunts
- Transfusions